A CLASS-BOOK OF
OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY.
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Elementary Theological Class-Books.
A CLASS-BOOK
OF
OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY
BY
THE REV. G. F. MACLEAR, D.D.
WARDEN OF ST AUGUSTINE’S COLLEGE, AND
HONORARY CANON OF CANTERBURY.
LATE HEAD MASTER OF KING’S COLLEGE SCHOOL, LONDON.
_WITH MAPS._
London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK.
1894
[_The Right of Translation is reserved._]
_First Edition printed January 1865. Second Edition printed
November 1865. Reprinted with slight alterations 1866,
with slight alterations 1868, with slight alterations 1869,
1871, 1872, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881,
1883, 1884, 1885, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1892, 1894._
NOTICE.
THE present Volume forms a Class-Book of Old Testament History from the
Earliest Times to those of Ezra and Nehemiah.
In its preparation the most recent Authorities[1] have been consulted,
and wherever it has appeared useful, Notes have been subjoined
illustrative of the Text, and, for the sake of more advanced students,
references added to larger Works.
The Index has been so arranged as to form a concise Dictionary of the
Persons and Places mentioned in the course of the Narrative, while the
Maps, which have been prepared with considerable care at Stanford’s
Geographical Establishment, will, it is hoped, materially add to the
value and usefulness of the Book.
_London, Christmas, 1864._
SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
_From the Creation to the Dispersion of Mankind._
CHAP. I. The Creation
CHAP. II. The Fall
CHAP. III. The Flood
CHAP. IV. The Confusion of Tongues
CHAP. V. Rise of Idolatry. The Patriarch Job.